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Anyone vs Whosoever - What's the difference?

anyone | whosoever |

As pronouns the difference between anyone and whosoever

is that anyone is any person; anybody while whosoever is whichever person; whoever.

anyone

English

Alternative forms

* any one

Pronoun

(English Pronouns)
  • Any person; anybody.
  • * (George Bernard Shaw)
  • The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
  • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=8 , passage= “[…] Anyone who knows me will tell you I'm straight, but this time I had six thousand quid at stake. […] I laid 'em long odds because it wasn't in the nature of things that Wynbolt could beat all of them champs. Then—then he smashed one after another, until I got windy—nervous as you might say. […]”}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}

    Synonyms

    * anybody

    whosoever

    English

    Pronoun

    (en-pron)
  • whichever person; whoever
  • * 1597 — v 3
  • If thou do pardon, whosoever pray,
    More sins for this forgiveness prosper may.
  • * 1611 — 6:47
  • *:"Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like"
  • * 18?? — , source?
  • This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

    Anagrams

    * howsoever